A panorama overlooking the Salinas Valley before heading down into King City

Figure 1: The 1D robot (i.e. a finger) accelerates in response to an initial applied force, then coasts until bouncing off the wall. The force sensor on the finger tip records the touch interaction with the wall. The robot then re-accelerates with sufficient force to overcome the static friction of the object and thus push it. Finally, the robot’s applied force turns off and since the robot has a larger drag force, it decelerates and falls behind the object.

My PRSG2 robot